This article is for Remote school wanting to make an online sports booking enquiry.
Who can make a booking
To make a booking enquiry you must be a nominated contact for your school (Coordinator, Principal or Finance Contact).
More information can be found in our article how do I update my school contacts and details?
School eligibility to make a booking
A school can only make a booking, for the year, if they have been successful in their grant application (for the year).
You will receive an email notification if your grant application was successful.
Alternatively, you can check in your Sporting Schools portal by going to the School portal and selecting the Grants menu option. To make a booking your grant status needs to be either Successful or Grant paid.
Accessing the booking system
IMPORTANT: Sporting Schools strongly recommends you review the spending fact sheet before making a booking How can Remote Sporting Schools funding be spent?
- Log into the School portal and select Bookings.
- In the Bookings, select the button 'Book a Remote school sport'.
If these options are not showing, it is possible the following has occurred:
• Your school does not have a grant for the current year.
• You are trying to make a booking outside of the grant dates. Visit our website to see term dates.
By selecting this option, you will be redirected to the Bookings portal.
Making a booking selection
When you access the Bookings portal, you can make a booking enquiry for through the following options:
• Packages
• Providers
• Sport
Each option will have a Yes or No under if this is available in your school's area. This indicates if the package, provider or sport is potentially available within your school's Local Government Area.
You can also use the 'filter' option in the top-right of the page, which will allow you to filter the package option as either coach delivered, teacher delivered and which providers that are available in your Local Government Area.
- Once you have chosen your booking enquiry option, select enquire now.
General information for booking enquiry
Schools will be required to enter the general information for their booking enquiry, which includes:
• Available budget
• Total number of students
• Start and end date of program delivery or I don't mind
• Do you want to combine sports delivery with other schools?
• Any additional requirements.
• Select -> next
Additional support for booking enquiry
Schools are required to enter whether additional support is required for your program delivery, which includes:
• Do you have students with disabilities that require additional support?
• Number of students
• What support is required
• Would you like to partner with a program provider that specialises in working with students with disabilities
• Select -> next
School contact for booking enquiry
Schools are required to enter in the contact details your school's contact for your booking enquiry, which includes:
• Who is your school's contact for the enquiry
• Full name, email and phone number of contact
• Select -> next
Review your details
- When you have completed all sections, please review your enquiry and select the 'Submit your enquiry' button.
Important:
It is expected the sport admin will contact you to confirm the best approach to organising your booking and getting the best value for your money. The booking information you enter helps smooth this process.
Next steps
Your booking will be sent to your chosen sporting organisation. The sporting organisation will be in contact with you to organise the booking.
You can view your booking information in your booking history page.